NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 17

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE.

ADVANTAGES OF BRISTOL MARKET. WELLINGTON, July 10. At a meeting of the New Zealand Board of Control of the Bristol and Dominions Producers’ Association (Ltd.) in. Wellington representatives were present from Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, and Canterbury. The question of the present method of dealing with rejects by the various freezing works was ’considered, and a definite proposal was approved for submission to members of the association. The question of adopting a uniform system of grading meat shipped to the association throughout the dominion was also considered and approved, subject to the final approval of the Bristol manager (Major Norton), when he arrives in the dominion in a few weeks’ time. It was decided that, subject to the approval of the Bristol manager, the association should undertake the handling of wool next season through Liverpool, where there are excellent facilities available for receiving and marketing the wool at Wapping docks. The consolidated charges for receiving and marketing at Liverpool are about half those at London, being 2s 4d per bale at Liverpool, as against 4s 4d and 5s 4d per bale in London; besides which barging and carting are obviated at Liverpool, and it is considered that there are better shipping facilities for American and Continental markets at Liverpool than at London, and also that Liverpool is very much closer to Bradford, the greatest woolconsuming district in the world, than to London. Also, there are large sales of Argentine and Indian wool held at Liverpool. The board agreed to a recommendation by the Bristol Board that, in view of the ia-

creased volume of business anticipated next season, a further issue of eharos of the asso- j ciation be made for Australia and Canada, ! in addition to the 60,000 already authorised | to be issued. The New Zealand Board con- j sidered that, in view of further shares be- j ing made available for Canada and Aus- ; tralia, an effort should be made to get fur- j ther shares placed amongst New Zealand i producers, so as to cqu'alise the control of the association by New Zealand with that of Canada and Australia.

The manager reported that a number of account sales for meat had come to hand, and in practically every instance the predictions of the association as regards saving’ in weight allowance and charges were cor- | feet and justified. As an illustration, in i one consignment of 420 carcases of mutton *

there was a SKit gain over the, colonial weights of 6691 b, while there was no deduction made for the usual 21b weight allowance per carcase that is.. deducted in London; and while the bulk of the meat had been hold for about three months in cold store, owing to a heavy slump in the market, caused by a glut of London, the total dock and cold storage charges were only £l4 11s 4d, while the London charges would have been, for the same parcel and period, over £26.